China, Tang dynastyDimensions: 9" (22.86cm) H Hu-form jar with phospatic glaze along neck and body, stopping short of the midpoint of the tapering base. The neck includes a long handle with two shorter framing handles and a short spout. The lower portion of the body is unglazed and reveals the earthenware clay. The glaze is a dark brown-black with translucent bluish-white splotches. The coloured effect is visible on the curved lip of the jar and partially on the interior of the jar. Compare with A VERSEUSE EN GRES A EMAIL PHOSPHATIQUE, November 2003https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-4184997Provenance:H.H. Pao Collection, Toronto多倫多鮑恆發家族珍藏H.H. Pao 鮑恆發 (Sear Hang Hwei Pao) (1937-2009) is recognised as one of Canada’s most revered dealers and collectors of Chinese art during the second half of the twentieth century. The Pao & Moltke gallery was an institution in Toronto’s prestigious Yorkville neighbourhood for over forty years and was frequented by Chinese art collectors, academics, and curators alike. Mr. Pao was of Shanghainese descent and came from a long line of Chinese art collectors. His father in particular had a well-known collection of Chinese Huanghuali furniture. Surrounded by art throughout his childhood, Mr. Pao was inspired to study at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, Germany, in the 1950s. It was here he met his future wife and business partner, Countess Nadia von Moltke-Kirsten. Together they studied at the Academy of Arts, Berlin, for another four years.In the late 1960s, Mr. Pao and his wife moved to Toronto and opened the Peking Gallery at Church and Gerrard. In the 1970s, they changed the gallery’s name to Pao & Moltke Ltd., relocating to Yorkville Avenue, before finally moving to its iconic location at Toronto’s Four Seasons Hotel where it remained until his retirement in 2006.Although Mr. Pao dealt in a wide range of Asian artwork, his primary passion was ceramic figures and vessels from the Han (206 BC-220 AD) to Tang (618-907 AD) dynasties. In Toronto, his inventory of early Chinese ceramics was arguably only surpassed by the holdings of the Royal Ontario Museum. Many of these objects were acquired through his travels to China from as early as the 1970s and from cities such as New York, London, and Hong Kong.古董商鮑恆發 (H.H.Pao) 高古瓷器珍藏鮑恆發 (H.H.Pao) (1937-2009) 被公認為是20世紀下半葉加拿大最受尊敬的中國藝術品交易商和收藏家之一。其所經營的Pao＆Moltke藝廊，坐落於多倫多著名的約克維爾 (Yorkville) 高端社區，歷經40餘載，生意興隆，門庭若市。營業期間，受到眾多中國藝術收藏家，業界名流，學者和策展人的頻繁造訪，可謂“笑談有鴻儒，往來無白丁”。其中香港著名古董藏家張宗憲每次到多倫多，必定造訪鮑先生的藝廊。鮑先生是上海人，來自頂級中國藝術品收藏世家。鮑先生的父親以其精品中國黃花梨家具收藏而聞名。鮑先生在整個童年時代都被藝術所包圍，長期的耳濡目染，使他決定於1950年代進入德國斯圖加特國家美術學院學習。在這裡，他遇到了未來的妻子和商業夥伴納西婭·馮·莫爾特克·基爾斯滕伯爵夫人 (Countess Nadia von Moltke-Kirsten)，並一同在柏林藝術學院度過了四年的進修時光。1960年代後期，鮑先生及夫人來到多倫多定居。在教堂街 (Church St.) 和杰拉德街 (Gerrard st.) 開設了北京藝廊 (Peking Gallery)，後於1970年代將藝廊的更名為Pao＆Moltke Ltd.，遷至約克維爾大街，最終移至位於多倫多四季酒店的標誌性位置後，持續營業直到其2006年退休為止。在鮑先生經手過的眾多精美亞洲藝術品中，他偏愛從漢代 (公元前206年至220年) 到唐代(公元618年至907年) 的陶瓷造像及器物。在多倫多，鮑先生的的高古中國陶瓷收藏質量，從廣度與深度上來講，或許只有皇家安大略博物館的庫藏才可與之相提並論。鮑先生私人珍藏中許多藏品都為其70年代往來穿梭於中國，紐約，倫敦及香港的藝術品尋寶之旅途中所獲。唐 魯山窯花釉雙系執壺